Apparently....

[maybe_amanda]

'Britishisms' Creeping into American English

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/britishisms-creeping-american-english-183652134.html

Who knew?  Oh wait, me.   {And some of those Britishisms have been Canadianism since, like, forever.  And Dr. Who and Sherlock and Being Human (the good one) and Luther and, weirdly, Doc Martin, have messed up my vocab way more

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[campylobacter]

Hey-o, James Bond & Monty Python FTW!

Learned something new from that article: Noah Webster solidified the dropping of the "u", switching the "s" to "z", etc. from American spellings. I should've deduced that years ago.

And in this article...
http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2047-americans-brits-accents.html
...I learned that we Amurikanz pronounce our R's because most of our early colonists spoke with Irish & Scottish accents.

[maybe_amanda]

Yeah, all that. (If you want to 'hear' slang, watch Misfits. It's like learning another language, and everyone has a different accent. Oy!) Canadians are caught between American and British spellings, but I say live and let spell, you know? Anything is better than that 1337 or text-speak.

I worked in a cafe in England with a bunch of other North Americans who were told to answer any request for tea or coffee with "Large?" which inevitably led to the customer saying, "not orange, coffee/tea." I finally suggested they say "lodge" (as in Royal Order of Water Buffaloes) and that worked. ::: headshake :::

[campylobacter]

So you never tried, "In the large size?" Heh. Too many syllables!

[aud_woman_in]

Well, that would explain why the US Space Shuttle much in the news lately is spelled ENDEAVOUR...